I was skimming the post on ArsTechnica about possible future of display technology and stumbled across this story in the forums. This is a great read for thinking about getting into the technology business. Be careful that ‘good enough’ strategies don’t clobber you. Have I written about ‘good enough’ strategies yet? I should since a […]
Why is that everyime I try looking on a phone or cable companies website for information for their brick & mortar stores I can’t find anything? It requires seaching and searching. Instead they’ve jumped on this notion of “Use the Online Services!!!” That’s great when things are workign as they planned. But how abuot when […]
This article is mainly covering the Open Source movement and its local heroes. But this quote really caught my eye: “An English-only or even an English-mainly policy necessarily condemns most people, and thus the country as a whole, to a permanent state of mediocrity, since people are unable to be spontaneous, creative and self-confident if […]
I decided to read Tom’s Hardware Guides article on implementing WPA. Here’s a quote: The good news is that, when it works, WPA is vastly more secure than WEP, and a hell of a lot easier to use, especially in the consumer-friendly Pre-Shared Key (WPA-PSK) mode. The bad is that if the present trend continues, […]
The Washington Post has an article that roasts government’s Internet security. This is funny considering all the other stuff they are trying to ‘secure’. This line is hilarious: The Department of Homeland Security — the government’s lead agency on matters of Internet security — was one of seven agencies that received an F grade for […]
The New York Times on outsourcing. Yeah I keep coming back to this topic but it’s definitely one of those things I feel strongly about. Here are some obligatory quotes: MR. JOHNSON It’s all about innovation and productivity. As long as we maintain those two engines, we’ll continue to have a very high standard of […]
Philip Greenspun strikes again. He’s got another post on some of the workings behind MIT’s Open Courseware Initiative. Here’s an excerpt: Students began to wake up. A PowerPoint slide contained the magic word “Delhi”.� It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseWare was done in India, […]
Gee here’s a new perspective on the fact people don’t like cleaning up after themselves if given the chance to avoid it. Bob Maderious will never forget the lease he brokered for property advertised as “plug and play” – only to find that it wasn’t. His client had been thrilled that state-of-the-art wires and cables […]
Ask Tog has an amusing anecdotal letter on bad security practices and preaches the same thing about security is a process and must be all encompassing and not just focus on one small part. But it is an interesting read just to review why you need to not think of just encryption or only part […]
Ouch. But at least they’re willing to admit when there’s a problem. When you get high profile it’s not that easy to admit wrongdoing. Some Debian Project machines have been compromised This is a very unfortunate incident to report about. Some Debian servers were found to have been compromised in the last 24 hours. The […]
There’s an interesting article on how some company named Wallflower got started recycling LCDs from old laptops and adding some customizations and selling them as fancy picture viewers. However, once they got succesful they ditched the recycling of the older LCDs and went to more ‘traditional’ methods. Here’s an excerpt: Left with nice cashflow from […]
Recently at an interview for a company I noticed that when they pulled out my resume and were using it as the standard template for what to ask me about. I noticed that all of my job titles were changed! They were interested in a UNIX Sys Admin type and it seems the recruiter I […]
Interesting post that I found on the ‘hinternet’: While I manage to fend off pop-up windows with Mozilla, and spam with Spamassassin, most people don’t know about those programs. They live in the “hinternet”, that shanty-town of X10 pop-ups and porn adware, and endless, endless Hotmail and Yahoo spam. They’re tourists in the world of […]
Just read Clay Shirky’s pulverizing taking apart of the semantic web and how it relates to syllogisms. My thoughts are… amen to that brother. I’ve never been enthusiastic at the huge amount of energy being tossed at the Semantic Web. The amount of input to get what I feel is little useful output is a […]
James Duncan has a wonderful entry on Why I don’t run Linux anymore. I have to say I really understand what he’s talking about. Here’s a snippet: But damn…. It’s one thing to be able to reach down into the guts of the system when you want to, it’s another to have to do this […]